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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

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Organic Chemistry

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DNA is a molecule that contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, live, and reproduce. It is composed of two long strands forming a double helix structure, where sequences of four types of nucleotides encode genetic information.

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